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Ernest L. Wiggins
Associate Professor
Electronic and Print Journalism Sequence

B.A. and M.A., University of South Carolina

Ernest Wiggins is a tenured associate professor of journalism.

A former reporter and editor for The State (Columbia, S.C.) and the Columbia (S.C.) Record, Wiggins joined the faculty in 1993, returning to the school from which he'd earned both his bachelor's and master's degree. Wiggins has done additional postgraduate study in social structures and social networks.

His areas of teaching and research specialization are newsgathering and reporting trends, media ethics, media literacy, newsroom operations, and mass media and social justice.

He's presented research at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications national conferences and regional colloquia. His research has been published in "Framing Public Life: Perspective on Media and Our Understanding of the Social World."

He has been a guest columnist for The State and his work has been reprinted in Stein and Paterno's "The Newswriter's Handbook" and Kreml, et al., "College Writing: Reading, Analyzing, and Writing."

He's attended seminars in writing and new media and convergence at the Poynter Institute and American Press Institute and was selected to be one of two faculty members to attend the Medicine in the Media workshop at the National Institutes of Health in 2005.

Wiggins has been recognized for his teaching and is sought after to mentor students and direct student research.

He's the adviser to the campus chapter of SPJ, which he revitalized out of dormancy in 2004. For his efforts, Wiggins received the David Eshelman Outstanding Campus Adviser award from SPJ in 2005.

In addition to SPJ, Wiggins is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Association of University Professors.

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ERNEST L. WIGGINS
E-mail: wigginel@mailbox.sc.edu

Office:
Phone: 803.777.3325
Fax: 803.777.4103
Room:  Coliseum 4005D

Office Hours:
Mon: 2 - 5 p.m.
Wed: noon - 5 p.m.
By Appointment

On the Web :

River City Times

Culture Chronicles weblog

Dads in Ads: The "Evolution" of Fatherhood in Television Commercials, presented at Popular & American Culture Association in the South 2009 Conference

Syllabi:
Jour 201 - Survey of Mass Communications
Jour 335 - Reporting

 
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